[comp.os.misc] What makes a good os?

Mark_G_Woodruff@cup.portal.com (11/25/87)

I'm looking for unique features of extant operating systems that make
them particularly useful or effective.  If you have used more than one
operating system and have found features in any of them that you felt
were particularly nice, please send me mail about them.  I will summarize
and post the results back to these groups.

In order to prevent the load of mail in reply to this letter from becoming
too overwelming, I'd appreciate it if you could please:

  1) only send particular features you liked, not general features such
     as multi-tasking and such
  2) not reply to this letter after 1-December-1987

Thanx,
Mark_G_Woodruff@cup.portal.com   -or-   sun!cup.portal.com!mark_g_woodruff

"Unique feature of MVS:  even on some of the fastest hardware it's slow."